SAMOA - Sistema de Apoio à Modelagem Orientada a Objetos de Aplicações.

Abstract

Design patterns are considered one of the most valuable technologies to produce quality software. A technique to improve the use of patterns is to identify their realizations and to induce a knowlege to enhance their use. This work to find all pattern realizations in a software design can be tedious for the software engineer. In this dissertation we show an assistant system for programmers and software architets, called SAMOA (Sistema de Apoio a Modelagem Orientada a Objetos de Aplicações). This system is an interactive assistant to automate the work of detection of the realizations of design patterns. On principle, SAMOA is able to automatically (i) find patterns applied in UML diagrams and in JAVA;sources (ii) make critiques about these patterns. If a pattern has been detected, a set of design critiques are verified to test if the realization of the pattern can be improved. And (iii) instanciate patterns to aim an automatic code generation in the JAVA programming language. We have implemented a prototype of the system that realizes activities (i) and (iii). We also discuss , wich properties differentiate our system from existing others.